BEVEL

I. adjective Date: circa 1600 oblique , ~ed , II. noun see: abeyance Date: 1610 an instrument consisting of two rules or arms jointed together and opening to any angle for drawing angles or adjusting surfaces to be cut at an angle, 2. the angle that one surface or line makes with another when they are not at right angles, the slant of such a surface or line, the part of printing type extending from face to shoulder, III. verb (-eled or -elled; -eling or ~ling) Date: 1677 transitive verb to cut or shape to a ~, intransitive verb incline , slant